#ethnostate

"what does international law mean for Palestinian children in Gaza today? It has protected neither them nor their parents. It has not protected their families or communities, it has not protected their lives or limbs, it has not protected their hopes or homes. We are a proud and resilient people that has endured more than its share of agony.

It is so painful to be Palestinian today. "

According to a 2023 statistic Jews make up about 73 % of Israel's population. Let's compare that with some other countries. (While ethnostate actually refers to racial or ethnic groups and Judaism isn't 'just a religion', I will also give examples for the demographics of religions in countries)

Let's start with the EU: According to statistics from 2019 about 64% of the EU's population were Christian, a decline from 72% in 2012. So what? In 2012 the EU was actually a Christian ethnostate? Or at least consisted of ethnostates? I mean if we think about it, we have to follow the Christian calendar, Christian holidays are mandated by the state while other religious groups have to fight every year to be able to observe their most sacred days. Hell, where I live (in Germany) one of the currently ruling parties is called the Christian Democratic Union and our Grundgesetz (basic law) is built upon Christian roots. They even invoke God in the preamble!

Here some further statistics about Religion in Europe.

As you can see even just looking at individual Christian denominations, there are about 6 countries for which the religious majority makes up more than 3/4th of the population. IN THESE COUNTRIES ONE DENOMINATION OF CHRISTIANITY HAS A HIGHER POPULATION PERCENTAGE THAN JEWS IN ISRAEL. So I hope this shows that 'Israel is an ethnostate cause there is just one religion determining everything' is utter bullshit not just because Judaism is not just a religion but also because I can name 6 countries in Europe alone for which there is a higher percentage of people of a certain religion.

So now to actually look at specific countries. Ireland especially seems to have an antisemitism problem, so how about we focus on them.

As of 2022 the amount of Catholics in Ireland has decreased so that they actually make up 69.1% of the population as opposed to the over 75% from 2019. But the definition of ethnostates actually specifically looks at ethnic or racial groups. Let's see. As of 2022 the largest ethnic group in were White Irish, making up a whole 76.5% of the Irish population. Including other white people in this, this number increases to 87.4% of the population. That is 14% more than the 73% that Jews make up of the Israeli population. The next largest group in Ireland are Asians with 3.7% (or depending on how you'd like to spin it, the 6.16% who did not state their ethnicity. This still doesn't make Ireland an ethnostate though.

And some more examples:

China: 91.11% Han Chinese (2020)

Russia: 71.73% ethnic Russians (2021)

Saudi Arabia: 90% Arabs, 10% Afro-Arabs (2021)

USA: 57.84% White (2020)

Canada: 69.8% White (2022)

Germany: 71.3% Germans (2022)

Democratic Republic of Congo: no dominant ethnic group

South Africa: 81.4% Black

The majority of Israelis are mizrahi not ashkenazi so the "ethno" in ethnostate can't be referring to european. (and even still most ashkenazim have middle eastern ancestry but the ppl who say this definitely dont know or admit this.)

But also usually when they say ethnostate they do mean Jewish majority. So how can it be an ethnostate with a jewish majority if jewish isnt an ethnicity???? If Jews arent a distinct ethnicity and are just europeans, then israel cant be a jewish-majority ethnostate lol since jewish doesnt exist as an ethnicity.

You wouldnt say america is a "christian ethnostate" because christianity isnt an ethnicity. If they arent ethnicities then its not an ethnostate. You would need another term like theocracy if u were just referring to the religion.

But functionally, they would mean that both are european-majority ethnostates (christian = substituted for european in this as well). Except that the majority of Israel's jewish majority are middle eastern, not european, even if we assume ashkenazi = european ancestry using their internal logic, the majority of israeli jews are again mizrahi.

Now and since 48 hours ago the bombardment has not stopped on eastern Rafah. The Israeli Zionist Occupation has thrown leaflets of evacuation orders on eastern Rafah this morning

The area in yellow hold more than 250 thousand people!!

Rafah currently holds 1.8 MILLION human lives!

Operation on Rafah is not only catastrophic but is unnecessary since Hamªs has already agreed to a ceasefire deal in exchange to releasing the hostages but the Israeli war cabinet led by Benjamin Netanyahu has refused.